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The Lewis R. Gibbes herbarium, representing the flowering 
plants of the southeastern United States and many of the sea- 
weeds of the Atlantic coast 
The Peter V ee herbarium, consisting of North American 
and Européan plan 
he Harry ee herbarium, mainly Californian. 
The Anna M. Vail herbarium, made up chiefly of plants from 
the eastern United States. 
e Francis E. Lloyd herbarium, consisting of specimens from 
the Pacific slope, and some plants from eastern North America. 
In addition to the foregoing, many thousand specimens have 
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been secured by exchanges of duplicate material with institutions 
and individ uals. he total number of herbarium specimens 
secured by the Garden since its inception, exclusive of the Ellis 
fungi, amounts to fully 98, 
The Columbia University herbarium, one of the oldest, and in 
itself one of the largest in America, contains over 600,000 speci- 
mens. This herbarium was begun early inthe century by 
ohn Torrey, and contains the material upon which his classic oe 
tanical writings, extending over halfa century, were based. Upon 
his death, in 1873, this collectio on came into the sem ie of 
Columbia College. On this as a foundation the present Col 
ia herbarium was built. Mr. John J. Crooke presented two 
valuable collections to Columbia; the one that of Professor C. 
isner, of Basle, Switzerland, one of ae oe leading 
botanists, the other a of the late Dr. A. W. Chapman, of 
palachicola, Florida, in which are Beer ae specimens upon 
— Dr. Ch hapman founded his “ Flora of the Southern United 
States.” A few years later the mosses, and many of the eae 
ie lichens accumulated by Mr. C. F. Austin, came into the pos 
session of Columbia, while the latest acquisition of great size and 
versity, was famous collection of mosses brought together 
from all parts of the world by the late Dr. J. eger, of Switz- 
erland ple nucleus, Dr. Torrey’s successor, 
. To this 
L. Britton, while professor at Columbia, and his associates, 
added continually by securing collections from all parts of the 
